top of page

"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Care quotes

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."

"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
Explore more quotes by Sarah Bernhardt


"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."


"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."


"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"


"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."


"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."


"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."


"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."
bottom of page